Never fails to amaze me why people feel the need to go poo poo on someone's thread. Yeah we get it, you have no interest in an unpacking video. That's why you had to just come into this thread to show how little interest you have.

Already done. Completely smooth. Total time on the phone was just 14 minutes, most of which was spent waiting for a supervisor to unpair the card from my old TiVo before the CSR I was talking to could pair it to the new one.

Dan any videos of the roamio in action? Would like to see the speed improvements over my premiere units.

I think the Engadget review had an action video showing the speed.

I'll tell you this the speed is exactly what you'd want it to be. Every button press is responded to immediately. Even if the UI isn't ready because it's downloading something from the internet you're met with an immediate bong telling you it received the button press. Unlike the Premiere which regularly would simply ignore button presses or queue them up and then respond to them randomly. I can navigate the Roamio UI as quickly as my fingers can push the buttons. It's worth the upgrade just for the speed improvement alone.

I would agree with the idea that unpacking videos would have limited value. Our box got pretty mashed up by the time we picked it up at WalMart (site to store purchase), but I decided to check the unit out before just returning it. It turns out that very little is in the box other than the Roamio and the remote. So it had plenty of empty space to absorb the crushes (perhaps allowing them in the first place?).

An unpacking video would have been very boring and quite brief. "Here it is in the box. Here it is moved to the shelf. Here it is hooked up."

Already done. Completely smooth. Total time on the phone was just 14 minutes, most of which was spent waiting for a supervisor to unpair the card from my old TiVo before the CSR I was talking to could pair it to the new one.

Wow... I just lost my last excuse not to upgrade.

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Not Dan, but I have used the DIAL functionality a few times via my iPad for Youtube videos and was impressed. I never bothered with Youtube on my Premieres/Elite.

Oh cool. Thanks! That's good news. It's pretty bad on my Elite too... The only concern I have now is PyTiVo playing nice with it. I'm seeing for some it's not working properly. That would be... bad... for me. I use PyTiVo all the time.

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Oh cool. Thanks! That's good news. It's pretty bad on my Elite too... The only concern I have now is PyTiVo playing nice with it. I'm seeing for some it's not working properly. That would be... bad... for me. I use PyTiVo all the time.

Where is mention of that? Got a link?

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